Tombstone epitaph., 1887-09-10

not on the eve of boom, she is experi- enciag something very nearly akin to it. How Water Storage Can be Obtained.
 The Albuquerque Citizen of the I3th inst. has most excellent article on irri- gation, from which we take pleasure in quoting the following. The typographical formation of Arizona and New Mexico are alike. Great waterless plains make up the major portion of the two territor- ies, and whatever change can be wrought in favor of one can likewise be used eff Actively on the other:-
 Glow shall our surplus water be stored for use when needed? This is the i'm. portant question which demands our most earnest attention. Our Territory is but sparsely populated, apart from our cattle and sheep growers, many of whom fear the advent of the agriculturist. Our people are poor, and rese. voirs ca- pablo of storing the surplus fiom our water courses and rain falls cost princely sums. Our territorial government has no authority to hypothecate the future resources of the Territory for this pur. pose. How then shall it be done? There is but one answer. We must go to the general government. The treasury of the United States is full to repletion; that money belongs to the people and must be used for the general good. The arid lands of New Mexico, Arizons; Utah, Nevada aud Wyoming are held in trust by the government for the use of the landless of the enire nation. Until these lands are watered they are useless, except as their scanty grass furnishes food for comparatively few cattle and sheep. Irrigate this great domain and it will furnish food and homes for a pop. ulation greater than the entire nation now numbers within her borders. Let then the government take of her surplus funds, dam arroyas and canyons, sink artesian wells and construct resel yoirs until the work is completed, and her great domain fit to be inhabited by the overcrowded population of the northern and eastern portions. In the demand upon Cong eress, Colorado, Nevada, California and all the te, .itories will unite. It should be the willing performed duty of every paper in the states and territories named, to agi- tate this question, and every citizen in either, who knows a member of Con- gress, should write to him private letter asking his cooperation in the work. Meetings should be held; petitions drawn up and circulated, asking Congress to aid us to water he public lands. The sale of lands thus reclaimed would, in great part, repay the cost of the necessary work for .beir reclamation, even at government prizes, and the reclaimed lands furnish homes for great and prosperous commu- niyies.
 The vast plains of India, which stretch from the base of the Himalaya noun tains, were as arid as New Mexico and Arizona few decades ago. The British government needed new outlets for her surplus population, and new fields upon which to grow the food supplies for those of her people who renamed on her sea girt islands, as we'll as new population to purchase the surplus product of her looms and forges. Immense storage reservoirs were constructed by the gov ernment in and near the foothills of the Himalayas to catch and hold the surplus waters until, now, immense bodies of water are preserved and distributed when needed. The result of this wise ex. penditure of British government gold has been all that could be desired, and to- day India competes successfully with the wheat fields of America and Russia in the markets of the world, and her re- claimed territory is but beginning to be populated. All that Great Britain has done in Northern India, the United States can do, and ought to do for the arid mountain slopes, valleys and broad plains within her territory.
 We must not wait, however, for gov. ernment action. Individual effort can do much; community effort more. Pr- vate wells in many cases will furnish water enough to support family, and in all cases where this can be, it should be done. Remember, "the gods help those that help themselves"
 The industrious and pains,aking Nor mon inhabitant of Utah has built his small reservoir in some arroya and stored sufficient water for his little farm, not in one case alone, but in thousands of in stances. until barren valleys are now being beautiful gardens. What Utah has done, New Mexico and Arizona can do.
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